Dakota

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊtə

Proper noun

Dakota

1. the Santee branch of the Sioux people; the language of these people
2. either of the two states North Dakota or South Dakota
3. A male or female given name.
   • 2002 Danny Katz, Dork Geek Jew, Allen & Unwin (2002), ISBN 1865087912, page 12:

     'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. You'd never hear it the other way around; you're not going to hear about an American kid called Warrnambool or Kooweerup― [- - -] and they said,'Okay okay, we won't call her Montana.' So they called her Dakota.

Derived terms

• Dakota group

Noun

Dakota (plural Dakotas)

1. A member of the Dakota people.

External links

• Ethnologue entry for Dakota, dak